It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

Quote by Seneca

Topics: Difficulty Quotes, Risk-taking Quotes

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.

Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.

We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today?...

We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today?...

The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is...

The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is...

Excessive power sees power beyond its power

Excessive power sees power beyond its power

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another

He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another

So enjoy present pleasures as to not mar those to come.

So enjoy present pleasures as to not mar those to come.

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

People do not care how nobly they live, only how long, despite the fact that...

People do not care how nobly they live, only how long, despite the fact that...

A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty

A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not...

Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not...

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor,...

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor,...

As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they...

As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they...

Once you pay the bills, money is the most overrated thing in the world.

Once you pay the bills, money is the most overrated thing in the world.